Misery Conquers The World

(album: Human Movement (Pears / Direct Hit) - 2017)

Braced for a collision
Long before a hint of harm
A distant plea just loops, repeats
Much like a car alarm
Saying "pleasure is a cancer child
You must address your health"
Soft open of an injury
Invoked to make me well

Happiness is stillness
There's a u-haul in my heart
Teeming with full speed ahead
Needle tipped into the red
Conviction is the catalyst
That drives us far apart
A banner read simply unfurled
Misery conquers the world

There's no respite from damage
When so violently instilled
The product of a panic button
Sticky from a spill
Sidetracked by bitter ironies
Sincerely insincere
Brute soldiering through suffering
It gripped my hand, slow danced me here

Misery loves company
And we're an LLC
Welded in purest intent
Spending good will we were lent
Dourness incorporated
Founded under me
Mission states "downward I swirl
Misery conquers the world"

Let the bodies hit the floor
A smile's not a smile anymore

The breadth of my obsession
Left impressions on my pawns
Monkey will do as he sees
A legion unlovable me
Life is imitation
And the Carolers I spawn
Follow with tails pinned and curled
Spirits all twisted and twirled

Expression inept
Crayons connect
A message that reads
Quite backwards indeed
Misery conquers the world